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TIL a Cambridge study shows that in 57 countries women on average display more empathy than men. In no countries studied did men have greater empathy

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888G TIL that Ulysses Grant was extremely tone-deaf. “I know only two tunes. One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’ and the other isn’t.”
r5e4 TIL in the 1960’s oilmen would shoot flaming arrows to relight gas tower flames.
OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.
ep5wL TIL Adidas acquired its signature 3-stripe logo from the Finnish athletic footwear brand Karhu Sports, for two bottles of whiskey and the equivalent of €1600 ($1805) in 1952
X0kPR TIL a pastor was offered $250,000 to oppose a menthol cigarette ban from a tobacco company, RJ Reynolds